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The Language and Reality of Time - Thomas Sattig

The Language and Reality of Time

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Buch | Hardcover
234 Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-927952-4 (ISBN)
CHF 179,95 inkl. MwSt
Thomas Sattig develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time, and offers an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking metaphysical questions about time with questions in the philosophy of language.
Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about the world.

The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this picture is preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics of predication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.

1. Temporal Supervenience ; 2. Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism ; 3. Temporal Predication and Supervenience Failure ; 4. Four-Dimensionalist Supervenience ; 5. Three-Dimensionalist Supervenience

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.6.2006
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 220 mm
Gewicht 407 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-19-927952-7 / 0199279527
ISBN-13 978-0-19-927952-4 / 9780199279524
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